Jan 24 - Feb 2
Forest Aeternam research
McKnight Foundation Composer Residency, Minneapolis MN

Mar 2
Cultivating a Thriving Arts Ecosystem
Arts Leadership Symposium, Seattle University

Mar 5
Practices and Rituals that Build Connection
Colleagues in Jesuit Education, Seattle University

Mar 7 – 9
I CHING 20 : On Seeing and Being Seen
Li Chiao-Ping Dance

Mar 8 - 14
Livable Futures: Oasis Residency
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Apr 11
Grounding with Nature
Seattle University

May 8 - 18
The Secret in the Wings
Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University

May 20
New Conversations
Earplay: contemporary chamber music
San Francisco CA

May 29
Artist Information Exchange Classical Music
California Presenter’s Conference
Palm Springs CA

Aug 25 - Sep 1
Li Chiao-Ping Dance Residency
Madison WI

Oct 16, 18, 20
Stuck Elevator
Hawai’iOperaTheater, Honolulu HI

Nov 23
The Truer History of the Chan Family
A Mini Sneak Peak, San Francisco CA

Highlights
Nashville Opera, Stuck Elevator, Nashville TN
American Conservatory Theater, The Headlands, San Francisco CA
West Edge Opera, Port City (excerpt), Berkeley and San Francisco CA
Bloedel Reserve, Up Lift: Collaborations with Nature, Bainbridge Island WA

More from 2023
Contemporary American Theater Festival, One Artist’s Response to Hate Crimes presentation, Shepherdstown WV
Western Arts Alliance Conference, Hyphen+Asian Symposium moderator, Seattle WA
Western Arts Alliance Conference, Arts & Activism presenter, Seattle WA
St. Olaf College Environmental Studies, Artistic Practice panelist, Zoom

Highlights
Bloedel Reserve Creative Residency, Bainbridge Island WA
Livable Futures: Climate Gathering, Barnard Movement Lab, New York NY

More from 2022
12th International Conference on Education and Justice presentation, Zoom
Music Showcase, University of San Francisco
San Francisco Opera Talk for Dream of the Red Chamber, San Francisco CA
Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, Forest Requiem Sketch, online
Sacred & Profane Chamber Chorus, Surrender: A Tai Qi Cantata, Berkeley and San Francisco CA
Wexner Center for the Arts, Livable Futures, Columbus OH

Highlights
San Francisco Opera Aficionado, Songs of Dislocation, San Francisco CA
The Henry Art Gallery and Jack Straw Productions, Murmurations: Sonolocations, Seattle WA
Stanford University, Chamber Chorale Autumn Concert performs 一道 Together, Stanford CA
University of Chicago, Chamber Music Program performs Water Partitas, Chicago IL
University of San Francisco Thacher Gallery, All That You Touch: Art and Ecology, San Francisco CA

More from 2021
College Music Society, Preparing Students to Lead for Social Change Panelist, Portland OR
Dartmouth University Hopkins Center for the Arts, Music, Activism and Healing Workshop, Hanover, NH
Dramatists Guild Institute, Teach-In for Art & Healing, New York NY
Hudson View Gardens Performing Arts Group, The Afield performs Water Partitas, New York NY
Rights & Democracy, Our Music, Our Movement, VT
Smithsonian Magazine, Beckoning: A Playlist of AAPI Joy, Sorrow, Rage and Resistance, USA
Stanford ITALIC, Challenging Art Music Workshops Leader, Stanford CA
Taiko Community Alliance, Producing Socially-Engaged Creative Work Presenter, USA
University of San Francisco, Performing Arts and Social Justice 20th Anniversary Festival, San Francisco CA
University of San Francisco, Social Justice in Action Panel, San Francisco CA

2020 Highlight
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Activist Songbook, New Haven CT

More from 2020
Asian Musical Voices of America, Conduct Change: Activism in the Arts Presenter, USA
Asian Musical Voices of America, Conduct Change: Steps Toward the Future Presenter, USA
The Autorino Center for the Arts and Cuatro Puntos, Music and Protest Panelist, Hartford CT
Barnard College Movement Lab, Livable Futures: Climate Gathering, New York NY
Chicago Composers Orchestra, Drawn Together: A Community Sound Sketchbook, Chicago IL
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Activist Songbook Workshops, New Haven CT
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, George Takei and Byron Au Yong in Conversation, New Haven CT
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Songwriting as Radical Imagination, New Haven CT
Kresge Foundation, Creative Capital Cultivating Community Workshop, Detroit MI
Stanford ITALIC, Acoustic Ecology Workshop, Stanford CA
Stanford ITALIC, Sharing Soundwalks Workshop, Stanford CA
Stanford Spring Saturday Series, Activist Songbook Workshop, Stanford CA
University of San Francisco College Players, Musical Theater Songwriting, San Francisco CA
Korekara Project, Awareness, Activism, and Anti-Racism as a Taiko Community, USA
Stanford ITALIC, Creating Artistic Responses, Stanford CA
University of San Francisco, Art, Music, and Poetry in the Time of Social Distance, San Francisco CA
University of San Francisco, Asian Community Space panel, San Francisco CA
University of San Francisco Getty Visiting Speaker Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco CA

2019 Highlight
NYU New Studio on Broaday, The Ones, New York NY

More from 2019
Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Creating Infrastructure for Resistance through Music, Madison WI
Catwalk Art Residency, Catskills NY
Chinese Historical Society of America, Chan Family Picnic reading, San Francisco CA
Compassion Has No Walls Vigil, ICE Building, San Francisco CA
Creative Capital, Beyond the Practice Room: Strategies for Professional Musicians Leader, Durham NC
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Activist Songbook Workshop, New Haven CT
Kala Institute Gallery, Exinclusivity—Space of Inclusion, Oakland CA
New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project Advisor, USA
Voices 30th Anniversary Concert, Music Opens, San Francisco CA

2018 Highlights
Asian Arts Initiative, 25th Anniversary, Philadelphia PA
Cal Shakes, The War of the Roses, Orinda CA
Exploratorium, Awareness and Action: Artists Respond to Climate Change Panelist, San Francisco CA
Philly Asian American Film Fest, Music of Asian America: Activist Songbook, Philadelphia PA

More from 2018
American Conservatory Theater, Port City Workshop, San Francisco CA
Asian Arts Initiative, Activist Songbook Community Workshops, Philadelphia PA
Creative Capital, Art Business Management Webinars, USA
Deeper Change Forum, Art Interrupting Injustice Trigger (Be)longing excerpts, Hamden CT
Exploratorium, Artistic Practice Toward Urban Resilience Presentation, San Francisco CA
Exploratorium, Resilient Infrastructure as Seas Rise Researcher, San Francisco CA
FilmNorth, Creative Capital Workshop Leader, St. Paul MN
Kresge Foundation, Creative Capital Workshop Leader, Detroit MI
Montalvo Arts Center, We the People, Saratoga CA
National Asian American Theater Conference, The Great American Musical, Chicago IL
New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project Advisor, Boston MA

2017 Highlights
Harare International Arts Festival, Water Partitas, Zimbabwe
International Festival of Arts & Ideas (Be)longing, New Haven CT
MDC Live Arts, Trigger, Miami FL
Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, (Be)longing, Blacksburg VA
National Sawdust, Water Partitas, Brooklyn NY

More from 2017
APAP Webinar, (Be)longing: Classical Music Leading the Way, USA
Asian Arts Initiative, Residency, Philadelphia PA
Berkeley Rep, The Ground Floor, Berkeley CA
Creative Capital Webinars, Art Business Management, USA
Donaldina Cameron House and Exit Theater, Madame Ho, San Francisco CA
Exploratorium at Doc’s Lab, Ricketts Inspired Bay Cabaret, San Francisco CA
Giant Steps Music, Music Action Lab Guest Faculty, San Francisco CA
Montalvo Arts Center, Lucas Artists Residency, Saratoga CA
New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project Advisor, Boston MA
TheatreWorks, Writers’ Retreat, Palo Alto CA
Westminster Choir College, Memorial Day 2016, Princeton NJ
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Why Citizenship? Transform Labs, San Francisco CA

2016 Highlights
American Conservatory Theater, New Strands Festival, San Francisco CA
Artist Trust, Fellowship, Seattle WA
INCA Institute, Water Partitas, Seattle WA

More from 2016
American Conservatory Theater, asian stARTup, San Francisco CA
American Conservatory Theater, Port City Presentation, San Francisco CA
Bay Chamber Concerts, Time Pieces, Rockport ME
Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Residency, Blacksburg VA
Creative Capital, Art Business Management, Detroit MICreative Capital, Artist Retreat, Troy NY
Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik, 125 Party Pieces, Leipzig Germany
Forward Flux at Café Nordo, The Flux Salon XII, Seattle WA
King Street Station, Strange Coupling, Seattle WA
Montalvo Arts Center, Lucas Artists Residency, Saratoga CA
Music Theatre of Connecticut, New Voices at MTC, Norwalk CT
New Music USA, Panelist, USA
Seattle Public Library, PlayBack, Seattle WA
The Flea, Trigger Workshop, New York NY
Westminster Choir College, Locations and Dislocations Keynote/Concert, Princeton NJ
Westminster Choir College, Residency, Princeton NJ
Wing Luke Museum, Stars Above: Wrapped in Lullabies Exhibition Text, Seattle WA

2020

January 15-16
Livable Futures: Climate Gathering
Movement Lab, Barnard College, New York NY

January 25
Activist Songbook Workshop
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven CT

February 8
Introduction to Musical Theater
College Players Songwriting Workshop, San Francisco CA

February 15
Activist Songbook Workshop
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven CT

February 18
George Takei and Byron Au Yong in Conversation
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven CT

March 3
Getty Visiting Speaker Michael Tilson Thomas
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA

April 14
Art, Music, and Poetry in the Time of Social Distance
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA

May 12
Songwriting as Radical Imagination
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven CT

May 30
Activist Songbook Workshop
Spring Saturday Series, Stanford CA

June 15
Drawn Together: A Community Sound Sketchbook
Chicago Composers Orchestra, Chicago IL

June 23
Shaping Our Voices Into Movements, Action, and Allyship
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven CT

June 28
There Will be Joy: Songs for the Revolution
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven CT

July 12
Awareness, Activism, and Anti-Racism as a Taiko Community
Unit Souzou and other taiko leaders, USA

July 29
Asian Community Space Panel
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA

September 24
Introduction to Performing Arts and Social Justice Cabaret
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA

October 6
Conduct Change: Activism in the Arts Workshop
Asian Musical Voices of America, USA

October 14
Creating and Innovating: Acoustic Ecology Workshop
Stanford ITALIC, Stanford CA

October 19
Creating Artistic Responses Lecture
Stanford ITALIC, Stanford CA

October 19
Creating and Innovating: Sharing Soundwalks Workshop
Stanford ITALIC, Stanford CA

October 20
Conduct Change: Steps Toward the Future Workshop
Asian Musical Voices of America (AMVA), USA

November 3-20
Performing Arts and Social Justice Music Showcase
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA

November 12
Music and Protest Panel
The Autorino Center for the Arts and Cuatro Puntos, Hartford CT

November 23
Creative Capital Cultivating Community Workshop
Kresge Foundation, Detroit MI

2019
Performances

Voices 30th Anniversary Concert
(4/14) Music Opens · USF · San Francisco CA

Kala Institute Gallery
Exinclusivity–Space of Inclusion, by Taro Hattori · Oakland CA

NYU New Studio Broaday/Tisch New Musicals
The Ones Reading (11/15-16) · New York NY

CHSA
Chan Family Picnic Public Reading (12/14) · San Francisco CA

Presentations
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Activist Songbook Workshop · New Haven CT

AAAS Conference
Creating Infrastructure for Resistance through Music (4/27) · Madison WI

Compassion Has No Walls Vigil (10/11) ICE Building · San Francisco CA

Residencies
Catwalk Art Residency
July 2-21 · Catskills NY

Service & Teaching
Creative Capital
Beyond the Practice Room: Strategies for Professional Musicians · Durham NC

NEFA National Theater Project
Advisor · USA

2018
Performances
American Conservatory Theater Port City Workshop · San Francisco

Asian Arts Initiative 25th Anniversary
Activist Songbook · Philadelphia

Cal Shakespeare Theater
The War of the Roses · Orinda

Deeper Change Forum
Art Interrupting Injustice 
Trigger (Be)longing excerpts · Hamden

Montalvo Arts Center
We the People · Saratoga

Presentations
Asian Arts Initiative
Activist Songbook Community Workshops · Philadelphia

Exploratorium
Artistic Practice Toward Urban Resilience · San Francisco

Exploratorium
Awareness and Action: Artists Respond to Climate Change · San Francisco

National Asian American Theater Conference
The Great American Musical · Chicago

Philly Asian American Film Fest
Music of Asian America: Activist Songbook · Philadelphia

Residencies
Montalvo Arts Center
Lucas Artists Residency · Saratoga

Asian Arts Initiative
Activist Songbook Residency · Philadelphia

Service & Teaching
Creative Capital Art Business Management Webinars · USA

FilmNorth Creative Capital Workshop · St. Paul

Kresge Foundation Creative Capital Workshop · Detroit

NEFA National Theater Project Advisor · USA

Performing Arts & Social Justice Assistant Professor of Music · University of San Francisco

2017
Performances
Donaldina Cameron House & Exit Theater
Madame Ho · San Francisco

HIFA (Harare International Arts) Festival Water Partitas · Zimbabwe

International Festival of Arts & Ideas (Be)longing · New Haven

MDC Live Arts Trigger · Miami

Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech
(Be)longing · Blacksburg

National Sawdust
Water Partitas · Brooklyn

Westminster Choir College
Memorial Day 2016 · Princeton

Presentations
American Conservatory Theater
New Strands Festival · San Francisco

Exploratorium at Doc’s Lab
Ricketts Inspired Bay Cabaret · San Francisco

YBCA
Why Citizenship? Transform Labs · San Francisco

Residencies
Asian Arts Initiative
(ex)CHANGE: History Place Presence Residency · Philadelphia

Berkeley Rep The Ground Floor
The Chan Family Picnic · Berkeley

Montalvo Arts Center
Lucas Artists Residency · Saratoga

TheatreWorks
Writers’ Retreat · Palo Alto

Service & Teaching
APAP Webinar (Be)longing: Classical Music Leading the Way · USA

Creative Capital Webinars 
Art Business Management · USA

Giant Steps Music
Music Action Lab Guest Faculty · San Francisco

NEFA National Theater Project
Advisor · USA

Performing Arts & Social Justice
Assistant Professor of Music · University of San Francisco

2016
Awards
Artist Trust Fellowship · Seattle

The Seattle Public Library PlayBack · Seattle

Exhibitions & Performances
American Conservatory Theater
New Strands Festival · San Francisco

Bay Chamber Concerts
Time Pieces · Rockport

Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik
125 Party Pieces · Leipzig

Forward Flux at Café Nordo
The Flux Salon XII · Seattle

INCA Institute
Water Partitas · Seattle

King Street Station
Strange Coupling Opening · Seattle

Music Theatre of Connecticut
New Voices at MTC · Norwalk

Residencies
Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech
(Be)longing Residencies · Blacksburg

Montalvo Arts Center
Lucas Artists Residency · Saratoga

Westminster Choir College
Residency · Princeton

Presentations & Workshops
American Conservatory Theater
Port City Presentation · San Francisco

American Conservatory Theater
asian stARTup · San Francisco

The Flea
Trigger Workshop · New York

Westminster Choir College
Locations and Dislocations Keynote/Concert · Princeton

Westminster Choir College
Trigger Workshop Presentation · Princeton

Service & Teaching
Creative Capital 
Art Business Management · Detroit

Creative Capital
Artist Retreat · Troy

New Music USA
Panelist · USA

Performing Arts & Social Justice
Assistant Professor of Music · University of San Francisco

Wing Luke Museum Stars Above: Wrapped in Lullabies Exhibition Text · Seattle

2015 Highlights
Dartmouth Hopkins Center and New York Theatre Workshop, Stuck Elevator, Hanover NH
Frye Art Museum, Mo Sheng 墨声 Ink Sound, Seattle WA
Leah Stein Dance Company and Mendelssohn Club, Turbine, Philadelphia PA

More from 2015
Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design, Residency, Ohio State University
APAP Global Performing Arts Conference, Up Next Presenter, New York NY
Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Residency, Blacksburg VA
Creative Capital, Art Business Management Presenter, Palm Beach FL
Creative Workforce Fellowship, Music Panelist, Cleveland OH
Headlands Center for the Arts, Piano Concerto–Houston installation, Sausalito CA
Weston Playhouse Artists Retreat, Residency, Weston VT
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The YBCA 100 Awardee, San Francisco CA

2014 Highlights
American Conservatory Theater, The Orphan of Zhao, San Francisco CA
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Piano Concerto—Houston, Houston TX
La Jolla Playhouse, The Orphan of Zhao, San Diego CA

More from 2014
3Arts Music Awards, Juror, Chicago IL
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Performing Ensembles Grant, USA
APAP Conference, Creative Capital Workshop Presenter, New York NY
APAP Pre-Conference, Arts Leadership Think Tank, New York NY
Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Residency, Blacksburg VA
Creative Capital, Art Business Management Presenter, Detroit MI
Creative Capital Blog, Artist-to-Artist: Byron Au Yong Interviews Dohee Lee, USA
Creative Work Fund, Performing Arts Juror, San Francisco CA
Hermitage Artist Retreat, Residency, Manasota Key FL
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Can Art Mediate Conflict? panelist, New Haven CT
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Residency, New Haven CT
Leah Stein Dance Company, Residency, Philadelphia PA
League of American Orchestras Conference, Collaborating with Asian Communities panelist, Seattle WA
New Music USA, Project Grant, USA
March Music Moderne IV, Tangosa, Portland OR
Symphony Space, Sundance... Sings!, New York NY
Photo Center NW, Asian Men in the American Media Presenter, Seattle WA
Science Leadership Academy, Music Composition Workshop Leader, Philadelphia PA
Virginia Tech, Peace and Violence guest speaker, Blacksburg VA

2013 Highlights
American Conservatory Theater, Stuck Elevator, San Francisco CA
Chapel Performance Space, Welladay! Welladay! Wayward Love Songs, Seattle WA
Chicago Composers Orchestra, Occupy Orchestra 無量園 Infinity Garden, Chicago IL
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Party Pieces Exhibition, Leipzig Germany
International Festival of Arts & Ideas at Long Wharf Theater, Stuck Elevator, New Haven CT
Miller Theater, Kiss/Kuss/吻 in The Party Pieces Project, New York NY

More from 2013
American Conservatory Theater, The Orphan of Zhao Workshop, San Francisco CA
The Association of American Cultures, What is American Culture? Panelist, Providence RI
Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Outstanding Original Musical Award, Stuck Elevator, San Francisco CA
Creative Capital Retreat, Artist Advisor, Williams College MA
Frye Art Museum, Chamber Music Exhibition, Seattle WA
Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, Idea Lab Presenter, Philadelphia PA
Grantmakers in the Arts Reader, Arts and Social Change, USA
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Working Across Cultures Panelist, New Haven CT
Opportunity Agenda, Creative Change Retreat, Sundance UT
Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at MASS MOCA, Residency, North Adams MA
TCG Conference, Edge Effect: How Diversity Fuels Creativity Panelist, Dallas TX

2012 Highlights
New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant, USA
Seattle Art Museum, O(pa)pera, Seattle WA
Sundance Institute Time Warner Foundation Fellowship, USA

More from 2012
American Conservatory Theater, Stuck Elevator Workshop, San Francisco CA
Chapel Performance Space, Magma Festival Show, Seattle WA
Regional Taiko Gathering, Composition Track Leader, Portland OR
Regional Taiko Gathering, Imagining a Future for Taiko, Portland OR
Rutgers University, Social Media, Storytelling and Performance Leader, Newark NJ
Spectrum Dance Theatre, Petruchska, Seattle WA
TCG Conference, Devised Theatre Creation & Touring Panelist, Boston MA
Velocity Dance Center Flashes of Brilliance Performer, Seattle WA
Wing Luke Museum Stuck Elevator Workshop, Seattle WA

2011 Highlights
Spectrum Dance Theatre, The Mother of Us All, Seattle WA
Whim W’him at Intiman Theater, 3Seasons reSet, Seattle WA

More from 2011
Cornish College of the Arts, Faculty Development Award, Seattle WA
North American Taiko Conference, Seven Ways to Develop Material, Stanford CA
Office of Arts & Culture, CityArtists Projects Award, Seattle WA
Portland Taiko at Shastayama, News, Mt Shasta CA
Seattle Art Museum, My Favorite Things Tour, Seattle WA
Seattle Symphony Community Music Day, Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas, Seattle WA
Staging Sustainability at York University, Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas, Toronto ON
Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Residency, Banff Canada
Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at White Oak, Residency, Yulee FL
Velocity Dance Center, Big BANG Remix, Seattle WA
Wallace Foundation and ArtsWA, Engaging Young Adult Audiences, Seattle WA
Wallace Foundation and ArtsWA, Arts Innovation, Seattle WA

2010 Highlights
Portland Taiko at Newmark Theater, Home and News, Portland OR
Portland Taiko at Winningstad Theater, Fifteen, Home, and News, Portland OR
Spectrum Dance Theatre, Farewell, Seattle WA
Whim W’him, 3Seasons, Seattle WA

More from 2010
Chen Dance Center, Stuck Elevator Fujianese Advisor Reading, New York NY
Columbia City Gallery, 保重 Farewell Exhibition Curator, Seattle WA
Jack Straw Productions, Erik Satie’s Vexations pianist, Seattle WA
May Day! May Day! at Town Hall, Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas, Seattle WA
Occultural Music Festival, Anna Homler & Friends, Seattle WA
On the Boards, 12 Minutes Max Curator, Seattle WA
Rasmuson Foundation Dance, Music, and New Media Juror, Anchorage AK
Regional Taiko Gathering at University of Washington, Chinese Drumming Patterns Leader, Seattle WA
Wallace Foundation and ArtsWA, Changing Demographics, Seattle WA
Wallace Foundation and ArtsWA, Engaging Audiences, Seattle WA
Yale Institute for Music Theater, Residency, New Haven CT